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Chemotherapy Safety: Reducing Errors With a Nurse-Led Time-Out Process.

Kimberly Kalo¹, Diana Karius¹, James F Bena¹

¹Cleveland Clinic.

Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing

|March 19, 2019

Summary

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Implementing a two-nurse chemotherapy time-out process effectively maintained low rates of chemotherapy administration errors, highlighting its value in quality improvement initiatives for patient safety.

Keywords:

chemotherapy drug administration medication error patient safety safety

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Area of Science:

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Patient Safety
Quality Improvement

Background:

Nurses are crucial in preventing chemotherapy administration errors.
Assessing error rates and implementing quality initiatives are vital for reducing these errors.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate chemotherapy administration error rates before and after implementing a two-nurse time-out process.
To determine the frequency of errors prevented by the intervention.

Main Methods:

Retrospective quality report utilizing pharmacy administration records.
Analysis of chemotherapy safety events across three distinct time periods.

Main Results:

The overall rate of chemotherapy administration errors was consistently low across all periods.
Error rates remained low post-intervention, similar to published findings.

Conclusions:

The two-nurse chemotherapy time-out process is an effective strategy for maintaining low error rates.
This intervention contributes to quality improvement in chemotherapy administration.